Senator Abaribe in Court today :
Counsel to Abaribe :
My lordship my client was arrested DSS and had been held incommunicado till today .
Justice Nyako : I did not make any order for his arrest .
Counsel : He was arrested days ago and brought to this court from DSS custody .
Justice Nyako :
You should know what to do if the man was arrested without court directive .
Counsel : My Lord the content of the search warrant that they brought to his (Sen Abaribe) house for search relates to this matter ( Nnamdi Kanu ) of which is under your court .
Justice Nyako : DSS is not an extension of this court . I did not make any order for the arrest of the surety and I don't also know why he was arrested. Those that did so should know why they did as such .
Counsel : My Lord , my client was to be in court today only for the agents of the state to arrest him and kept him incommunicado for days . My Lord we are talking about a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Justice Nyako : You know what to do in a situation like this !
Counsel : Even where he has been incommunicado my Lord ?.
Justice Nyako : Who brought Sen Abaribe to Court ?
DSS Personnel : We did my Lord .
Justice Nyako : Allow him access to his counsel .
For whatever reasons you arrested him , please allow him access to a lawyer of his choice .
DSS Personnel : Okay My Lord .
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Outside the courtroom :
As Senator Abaribe stepped out of the Courtroom , there were over 50 journalists with various cameras waiting for him to address them .
How Trouble started :
The moment reporters rushed to interview Senator Abaribe, DSS personnel insisted that he must not talk .
The Crowd of Journalists started shouting : allow him to address the press !!
It is his right !!!
He must talk to us !!!
You can't stop him from talking to the press !!! Etc .
Then , crowd erupted into singing " Freedom Come ooo by Struggle ooo, Freedom Come , by Struggle by Struggle , freedom Come ...!!
As tension was building up , DSS men smuggled Senator Abaribe back to the Court to allow tension die down.
One thing here , is that he was not in Court as a result of an arraignment for any fresh allegation or case but was in Court based on the ongoing matter previously postponed to this date by Justice Nyako on a pending case involving Nnamdi Kanu .He was to come to Court from his house and not from any custody !
The question then becomes ....why the deliberate arrest and harassment of a Senator for obviously no reasons whatsoever
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Me : It is now obvious that he was arrested not based on any court directives . We are losing it !
You pick a serving Senator like common criminal and kept him incommunicado because of his outspokenness .
I pity those clapping for this inept team that keep over heating the polity !
It is reported that DSS has released the Senator now .
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Ikechukwu Emeka Onyia ©2018
Abuja , Nigeria
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